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From: jeff@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: RE: Buy No Metaobject Wine Before Its Time
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Date: 15 Feb 91 18:13:48 GMT
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> Perhaps a reasonable solution (from the point of view of the users, if not
> from the point of view of the language developers and system implementers)
> would be to produce some agreement between major players such as Symbolics,
> Lucid, Franz, ...

Well, I don't really like this.  We have a machanism (X3J13) that
is fairly democratic and has a fairly wide base.  I don't think we
should resort to a different mechanism that is less democratic and
less wide-based.

Moreover, something may be reasonable for users of the "major players",
but not necessarily for users in general.

-- jd